I am looking for "diskdump" docs. can anyone help me? i did search on google but couldnt able to find useful docs.

I know redhat has 'netdump' but i am looking for 'diskdump'.

thanks in adv...

diskdump? Do you mean maybe "dd"?

To see info on the dd command:
man dd

Thanks jlightner,

I means "Diskdump" , NOT dd.

Please send me a docs links,

thanks in adv...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump/

It appears to be not very active--are you sure that something else would not be better?

There used to be several competing projects for capturing crash dumps.
kdump has won - direct your efforts there.

thanks for kind reply.

i like to go for something else. but i could not able to find useful docs on that. like "syg00" suggest "kdump" i searched on google but not able to find good docs.

what are the other good crash dump tool for Linux. please help me...

Have a look in the ../Documentation/kdump

I have installed 'diskdump' and follow the steps to configure. in the steps it says format the dump partition. so i have created the file system and format with following command.

"service diskdump initalformat".

after that i tried to mount that partition. its say bad file system.

then i added into fstab and reboot the box. it gave FAILD with bad super block and asking me to perform the repiar task by pressing CTL + D, or type the root pwd.

its didnt work. then i removed that entry from fstab file and boot the server. its came up fine. when try to mount that again it says wrong file system, give file type and try.

i gave type: mount -t fat /dev/sda6 ( i gave fat becz it was written on the screen with error)

i tried using ext3, again wrong file system.

when i check under /var/crash, no file was created, i dont know what wrong with that and how to figuer out this.

can anyone have idea, how to get it work?

thanks in adv...